From the FBI’s Groucho Marx routine in Utah to Trump’s Senate conveyor belt of cronies, America’s institutions are being gutted and repurposed for the kakistocracy.
This morning some workers came to do a big job at my house. The boss drove up and stayed in his truck, yelling on his phone. Finally he got out and told me the problem: his new piece of big machinery was being held up at the Canadian border with an outstanding $14K tariff that needed to be paid. The equipment was going to be so late as to be useless for this season of work. I had one question for him: Did you vote for Trump? He looked at me with the eyes of someone about to cry.
We need to keep doing this. And as hard as it is (haven't figured it out yet), finding ways to do it compassionately (not with a verbal 2x4, like I want to) and gently make it okay for them to turn that bus around and be able to look at aaaaaalll of their cognitive errors head on. I hope you keep talking to that big guy. Make him some coffee, pour him a beer, pull up a lawn chair. Listen.
I’m not laughing about Kash Patel right now. At the end of his remarks at the press conference this morning, he said, “Meet you in Valhalla, Charlie.” “Meet you in Valhalla” is a white supremacist catchphrase. Talk about the foxes guarding the henhouse.
I'm still stuck on the Wall Street Journal publishing such a glaring and unchecked error (and easy to check, at that!) I have great impatience for people being careless with where they are getting their info, but when the WSJ publishes it, they can't be blamed. The big worrisome question: are they careless or are they deliberately complicit?
As the recent political murders make tragically clear, the dangers of polarizing are real and extend to all political views. It’s also true the overwhelming messaging from the political right - both here and abroad - continues to foment rage against the “left” without boundaries, even if the perceived offense is citing evidence and reason to challenge a right wing narrative.
The Republican governor of Utah said what the occupant of the White House reprehensibly didn’t say for this fraught moment: "We can return violence with fire and violence. We can return hate with hate. And that's the problem with political violence, is it metastasizes, because we can always point the finger at the other side, and at some point we have to find an off-ramp, or it's going to get much, much worse. These are choices that we can make…”.
From Kash Patel: "Lastly, to my friend Charlie Kirk: Rest now, brother. We have the watch, and I'll see you in Valhalla."
JFC. Pretty much sums that up. I never heard of Kirk until he was dead, but apparently he was the best bud of everyone in Trump's regime, including the 0range 0ne himself.
September 11 is also widely known in South America (and the world) as the date that Salvador Allende, hugely popular president of Chile, was assassinated by the US in 1973. It has been suggested that that was the reason for the date of the bombing of the trade center in New York.
Charlie Kirk’s "assassination" is being sold as random chaos—a lone nut with a gun, another tragic headline in a country already drowning in them. But precision shots from hundreds of yards away doesn't square with some "unhinged college kid.” They LOOK more like training, planning, intent. Kirk himself even said the Mossad might want him gone…
An amuse bouche backatcha:
This morning some workers came to do a big job at my house. The boss drove up and stayed in his truck, yelling on his phone. Finally he got out and told me the problem: his new piece of big machinery was being held up at the Canadian border with an outstanding $14K tariff that needed to be paid. The equipment was going to be so late as to be useless for this season of work. I had one question for him: Did you vote for Trump? He looked at me with the eyes of someone about to cry.
We need to keep doing this. And as hard as it is (haven't figured it out yet), finding ways to do it compassionately (not with a verbal 2x4, like I want to) and gently make it okay for them to turn that bus around and be able to look at aaaaaalll of their cognitive errors head on. I hope you keep talking to that big guy. Make him some coffee, pour him a beer, pull up a lawn chair. Listen.
And the FAFO strikes again! 🤣
No words needed. You’ve said it all….A great read with great cup of coffee. ❤️☕️❤️
I’m not laughing about Kash Patel right now. At the end of his remarks at the press conference this morning, he said, “Meet you in Valhalla, Charlie.” “Meet you in Valhalla” is a white supremacist catchphrase. Talk about the foxes guarding the henhouse.
Fabulous as always, Mary. If that was the appetizer, I’m ready for the main course ♥️♥️
I'm still stuck on the Wall Street Journal publishing such a glaring and unchecked error (and easy to check, at that!) I have great impatience for people being careless with where they are getting their info, but when the WSJ publishes it, they can't be blamed. The big worrisome question: are they careless or are they deliberately complicit?
As the recent political murders make tragically clear, the dangers of polarizing are real and extend to all political views. It’s also true the overwhelming messaging from the political right - both here and abroad - continues to foment rage against the “left” without boundaries, even if the perceived offense is citing evidence and reason to challenge a right wing narrative.
The Republican governor of Utah said what the occupant of the White House reprehensibly didn’t say for this fraught moment: "We can return violence with fire and violence. We can return hate with hate. And that's the problem with political violence, is it metastasizes, because we can always point the finger at the other side, and at some point we have to find an off-ramp, or it's going to get much, much worse. These are choices that we can make…”.
From Kash Patel: "Lastly, to my friend Charlie Kirk: Rest now, brother. We have the watch, and I'll see you in Valhalla."
JFC. Pretty much sums that up. I never heard of Kirk until he was dead, but apparently he was the best bud of everyone in Trump's regime, including the 0range 0ne himself.
Mary, you always knock it out of the park. I don't know how you can pull so much information together every day, but I'm proud to share it.
September 11 is also widely known in South America (and the world) as the date that Salvador Allende, hugely popular president of Chile, was assassinated by the US in 1973. It has been suggested that that was the reason for the date of the bombing of the trade center in New York.
Charlie Kirk’s "assassination" is being sold as random chaos—a lone nut with a gun, another tragic headline in a country already drowning in them. But precision shots from hundreds of yards away doesn't square with some "unhinged college kid.” They LOOK more like training, planning, intent. Kirk himself even said the Mossad might want him gone…
https://jaywilson1.substack.com/p/rip-charlie-kirk?r=10sd39
More likely our own who needed a martyr and a distraction. They got 2 with one shot.